Jarrod G. Shook is a 27 year-old prisoner at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ontario. Jarrod credits the time he was able to spend attending university during a previous period of release under community supervision for cultivating in him both a political awareness and an intellectual curiosity. He has recently re-enrolled as a distance education student to complete his undergraduate degree in sociology, and intends to merge his academic training with his experiences in the Canadian penal system to advance a critical analysis as inspired by the Convict Criminology perspective.
